What I do know is that this was a good read. I haven't been reading detective comics, but if they are mostly comics told within the confines of one book I would like that. The stories all interact with each other and with all sorts of other bat comics. However they finish the main problem within the story they tell in need comic. I like that. Six issues in a row with cliffhanger endings ruins the drama of a cliffhanger ending. Just my opinion but damn if it doesn't get me some times. Anyways. Not turning this into a rant.
So here is a rant about what Batman is wearing in the first and last story in this issue. Batman is getting old. Ever since Detective comics first ran the Batman Issue back in 1876 we have seen the gradual modernization of Batman. Only in a few non cannon stories with their own run have we seen Batman get old. Even in Batman Beyond he didn't seem like he really got that old. He was still fighting crime and shit.
It is good to see them finally showing some age with batman in the New 52 version of batman. Alfred Pennyworth or Penny One as he is now called is quite balding with a ridiculous comb over. Now we have Batman wearing suspenders like a grandpa. Look at those. I posted them right to the right so that you can tell. Not only is he wearing suspenders now but he is forgetting what characters are in what comic universe. Frankly he is going senile. He should have guessed Savage Hawkman. That would have been funnier for me to write about. also I think Ivy is getting grouped in the panel right below that. Oh yeah. she is. Rated T for Teen.
Being rated T for Teen another thing I would like to talk briefly about. I like that they do this. I know there was a controversy way back when green arrow wanted to write a comic about speedy being on drugs. They were all like whoa whoa whoa. Can you write a comic about that? Then they came up with their own comics approval board. Then later on they ditched the approval board because everybody was either behaving or writing a comic with out the approval of the board and just warning them on the cover.
I like how nobody has tried to step in, at least in recent times, and censor what a comic is going to be about. Comics have been around for a long time and come a long way to earn that place. They regulate themselves and they do it internally. They don't need a big corporation hovering over their heads judging there every move and they definitely don't need a government run one doing just that. This is why I enjoy comics as one of the best ways of artistic expression. Movies have the MPAA sitting over their head and maybe even a few others that I don't know about. Without their approval and rating they can't put their movies in theaters. But a comic only has to go through their publisher and the editor for approval for sale on comic store shelves around the world. (should look up how other countries sell comics before making this claim maybe) Some people make jokes about how editors are evil but everybody has editors anyways and everything not indie and even a good bit of what is considered indie has a publisher.
Games seem to have it the worst right now from what I see where I am sitting. The ESRB and 15 other different ratings boards around the world do not seem to be doing the good that they were intended to be doing. I do like there is a convenient and recognizable symbol on games to say whether or not they are appropriate for kids. I also like that is is not government regulated and is basically game publishers distributing censorial duties amongst themselves through a board they set up. Unfortunately this board was born out of lawsuits and government interactions. On top of that it isn't doing the good they wanted it to do. parents don't care what they by their kids on the most part. Any form of forcing kids to be unable to get these games is not what is going to stop them from playing them. Honestly I don't think they need to be stopped. That is entirely up to the parent. I do agree with stores refusing to sell M-Rated games to minors. That should be kept up. Generally a store won't sell comics like that to kids either. Granted on average a comic store employee knows their comics better than the average person working electronics at Walmart that had a prompt pop up on their screen asking for ID.
With age comes acceptance. Music in its various forms has gotten away with regulating in however it feels is appropriate to sell its wares. Parental Advisory stickers do their work. Movies have gotten to the point where they can sell their DVD as unrated and nobody complains anymore. One day I would like to see games get to this point. I would say keep the E, T, M ratings but drop the ESRB part off and be allowed to regulate themselves departmentally. There is no reason this transition can't be made smoothly. I feel like the fact that they have a regulating board is just more fodder for the talking heads to make people blame the problems of society on others. Perhaps the future will come. Games will mature. Digital games will likely be the first to adopt. I don't ever remember seeing an esrb rating on Minecraft. I searched it.
It doesn't have a rating except on XBLA where it is required to. This guy also did some talking about the issue. Randomly found it while searching for CCA picture to use. http://kotaku.com/5975124/comic-books-disastrous-self+censorship-offers-a-lesson-for-games-publishers-too Sorry it is from kotaku. It isn't one of the journalists I don't like though. Also I like posting the full links when they describe themselves.
Unrelated. but HBO SHOWS WITH BOOBS! GAME OF THRONES. BOOBIES. If you don't like boobies here is some a butt from Detective Comics #19
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